Foundations of External Martial Arts

These past few chapters had been about arranging a few things, laying some groundwork for what came later, and explaining some settings... Chi You was coming up soon, so don't worry.

"Do you know what Lianshan and I ate back then in Shenzhou?"

Xu Yanwu looked at everyone before him. "To cultivate our bodies, we needed enormous amounts of food... and enormous amounts of energy. But back then, our tribe could not possibly have had enough food for us to eat without restraint, so..."

"Take a guess. What did we eat? Where did our food come from?"

At Xu Yanwu's question, everyone began to think.

"Farming, perhaps? Growing enough food..."

"Fishing?"

"Given Lord Yan Emperor's circumstances at the time... it should have been hunting, right?"

"It was hunting, but... we hunted Honkai Beasts."

Xu Yanwu spoke.

"We hunted many Honkai Beasts from the outside world for food. And it was also during that time that Lianshan gathered and experimented with many herbs..."

"You should know the Classic of Mountains and Seas, right? The two of us wrote it."

"Most of the Honkai Beasts recorded in it were ones we had actually encountered..."

After hearing Xu Yanwu say that, everyone had already gone somewhat numb.

They had heard too many shocking things today and no longer had the strength to be surprised.

"Internal Energy Cultivation cultivates True Qi, storing Honkai Energy in the form of True Qi within the dantian, thereby controlling and adapting to Honkai Energy... In return, it grants sufficiently powerful offensive strength."

Xu Yanwu continued, "You have all more or less practiced Internal Energy Cultivation, so you should understand some of this."

"Although practicing Internal Energy Cultivation can strengthen the body to some extent, it does not actually strengthen it by much..."

"But External Martial Arts are